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momentful

momentful adjective: relating to or characteristic of a moment.

Adjective

momentful (comparative more momentful, superlative most momentful)

  1. Relating to or characteristic of a moment
    • Our unit mite of care and trivialness, And frozen staidness and frigidity; On what shall quickly prove a confluence Of bosom ferment; yea, rack'd seas of thought, A universe of momentful concern.1829, John Dunlop, Oliver Cromwell. A poem, page 77
    • I'd made up my mind to treat it right, to make it clear and strong and simple. I wanted to hit the notes as telling as a clock striking. And when I started, that full momentful thing I'd been feeling since yesterday at the foot of Ember Mountain took hold of me.2013, Fred Chappell, More Shapes Than One: A Book of Stories
  2. Synonym of momentous.
    • Take that momentful night when WMAL-TV made its baptism into the ether.1948, Editor and Publisher - Volume 81, page 44
    • After a comparatively momentful trip, I arrived in Odiongan about one o'clock in the afternoon.1998, Gabriel F. Fabella, The Man from Romblon, Autobiography, page 50
    Synonyms:
    momentous

Noun

momentful (plural momentfuls or momentsful)

  1. As much as can be experienced in a moment.
    • ...and it seemed to the girl that the whole wide church with its dimness, and consoling poverty (that half assured her its God was indeed the God of the poor) was filled with the faint susurration of moving lips, a momentful of sorrow cupped from the day-long stream of sorrow that flowed endlessly...1932, Frank O'Connor, The Saint and Mary Kate, page 54
    • Yes, I am spoon and spool, milk and needle harvesting quiet by the momentful.2001, Abacus, page 140

Synonyms of momentful

Forms of momentful

Adjective
comparativemore momentful
superlativemost momentful
Noun
pluralmomentfuls
pluralmomentsful

Origin of momentful

From moment + -ful.

Questions about momentful

What does momentful mean?
Momentful means relating to or characteristic of a moment.
What part of speech is momentful?
Momentful can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near momentful in the dictionary

  1. momentarinesses
  2. momentary
  3. momentary god
  4. momentary gods
  5. momentasone
  6. momentful
  7. momentfuls
  8. momentless
  9. momentlessness
  10. momently
  11. momento

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